The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1920, Page 12

TEX RICKARD HEADS NEW WORLD BOXING TRUST BY HEK | The matching of Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier to} oe EW YORK, Nov. battle for the heavyweight championship of the world is now history, but there! is One very important fact that has been overlooked by the sporting public. It is the fact that a world’s boxing ~ trust has been formed whic hi) hereafter will have its say-: in every great fight on this little old hemisphere. ‘This trust is just as powerful in $ts line as was the Standard 0 Gompany. It consists of only four } men but it is going to dominate The World so fur as fights are con cerned, These four men are Tex Rickant William A. Brady, John Ringling Fepresenting America, and Chartes Cochrane, representing England RICKARD THE .- MASTER MIND ‘This article going to give ey oi nSMte"f"s. EIGHT LETTER WINNERS Wer mind of the trust. Rick )@R adventurer, but an ad Who always thinks of b | That is why he has accomplished ie things in the boxing line } Tex began life as a Texas cow. Bey. It is related of him that he Hever packed a gun, contrary to re-| Berts generally current but never | theless whenever he “started any.| thing” the other guests jumped out ef the windows, ‘From Texas he} P@tifted to Montana, and when civ.| *tadium field for the first time, Sat [Mization followed him he took the urday afternoon, to meet the mighty rer things. TEAM THAT MEETS DARTMOUTH ying his third game for the Pur | and Gold. Neuman (‘Zeke") Clark, at left tack 4 letter man of last year’s ON WASHINGTON | le When the University of Washing: | p ton grid warrk rot out on thw new P football team “Brest jump into the Northwest to] Greeks from Dartmouth « of Gus F discus heaver de tuxe, | what he could stir up in the] Hanover, N. H, they will have 4 is playing his second year of foot | region. | team whose members, with the ex ball, Gus will play left guard Im the first great Alaskan gold) ception of three men, have won pre Larry Smith, sorappy center, Fash Tex wns among those who! vious letters in grid gar has made one f n or the first trail along the| Wilson, Ingram and an, at! Harold (Heavy) G at right In that district he got/ stars of the 1919 frosh team, are the) guard, is playing his second year on Quite a little reputation about the | men who are not “W" winners, but the varsity team. tables, but he lost prac-/who will. go into the Dartmouth! Two of the frowh of last year, In as much as he won. struggle. gram and Eiryan, will play right | Bob Abel, at quarterback, ts play- tackle and left end. } ing hie third year for the varsity Johnny Wilson, the other frosh, was one thing that men| Ervin Dailey, at half, bas made will match bis booting ability againat | Jearned about Rickard at that time, | Wo letters ady in the grid game. the foot that ix the sensation of the! Thewever, he never broke his word.| Ray Bekmann, the other half, is East, that of Capt. Jim Robertson, | He never has. This trait has PiMying bis nf year on the team. Dartmouth 195-pound sensational | Capt. Ted Faulk, at left end, is backfield man. | Proved invaluabie to him tn creating | the great boxing trust. When Goldfield wanted to get fame, & citizens’ committee turned See ee eet| TO REFEREE BIG GAME Battle between Joe Gans and Matting Nelson, offering a purse| George Varnell, veteran Pacific cis! who is well known to the fang @f $20,000, a record for the light.| Coast football referee and Spokane) will act as umpire fights, together with $4.000/ Sporting editor, will handle the) Harry Dadmun will act as field and expense money. Nelxon| Whistle in the big Washington judge. This & the firet Ume in | Dartmouth game at the New Sta-\the history of Seattle football that “Bot $23,000, Gans $11,000. popped up In New York| ‘lum Saturday afternoon a field judge bas been among the; years later and offered $101,000} Varnell is known up and down officials in a local grid game. The the JeffriesJohnson fight. He|the Const as a referee and his field judge can see many things ft and the receipts at Reno|Pick of the All-Conference team at thet eveape the eyes of the umpire reached $250,000. Other pro. the conclusion of the season is and referee | had Inughed at Rickardi's|*omething that grid fans always, Tracy Strong, well known high | took forward to. school referee, and Joe Gottatein ‘They wept over the results. fhe excowboy with a brain kept | the pace. He put up $69,750) the 10-round, no decision ffirht ] York between Willard and sale totaled) J. Plowden Scott, another offi-| will act a» head linesmen. - SEATTLE FANS TO WATCH All «& E R Eck SA Pel " AY mann, Washington's dimunitive halt. With big Captain Jim Robertson, of esis a ens uth ana Dartmouth, who ts considered as a cinch for an All-Ameriean half on and the seat $150,000. THEN THE DO FIGHT the Toledo fight in which lammed Willard into the | Washington lineup for their big tilt | ¢), thieal ler ed nd of sweet reams. Willard ot Saturday in the new Stadium. aici. - ; Dempsey Gown $30.-| i-hmann te practically 0 cinch toe | Eckmann x the lightest member | and Rickard made a very fat/ ‘to boot. ‘the $500,000 battle between | and Carpentier! It's a big/ but Rickard has alwayn made | for he always keeps his| an all-Coast berth, and is the only of the Washing individual star who has distinguished | aroend 145 p< himself on the Washington eleven | Robertson, the Dartmouth captain) this season. and star, tips the sealew at 196 in! Followers will watch with Interest | his football outfit _ EVERETT READY FOR SALT LAKE GRIDDERS on eleven, weighing Is In & football eutt fs almost tnconcetvable that a purse will ever be offered, Rickard does big things. And) has the ger eer BY ABE GLASSBERG Thursday night and Friday neon, Don't forget that out o! *| EVERETT, Wash. Nov, 23.--/and a ball Thursday night. Invite he has coined in the boxing | Coach Enoch W. Baguhaw's Everett tions have been extended the mem Rickard has bought and/ one of the largest cattle in Paraguay. Furthermore, has a 10 years’ lease on Madi-| Square Garden. He is head of | world's boxing trust—and right- high school machine is ready for the invading East Side gridders of Salt beru of the University of Washing ton and Dartmouth elevens to Lake City, which contests Everett's | witness the game and to attend the| claim to the United States prep | dancing party. school grid title here Turkey Day. Chalien: lenges have been received ‘The remainder of the period be eG the local eleven from Steele high| iy. tween now and Turkey Day will be school, of Dayton, Ohio, and the} 5, S 2g given over to signal practice and iast Tech, of Cleveland, "In tomorrow's article we shall) chalk talks. All members of the some of the facts about other of the boxing trust. orted to be local eleven are re I chances are bright that the Ev oo the best of condition. school will again defend Weatern| Interest in the game is at a high prep school honors against the best pitch here, and tickets are selling|the East produces. Steele high| |rapidly. Clvie organizations, inctud:| school is coached by C. H. Frost, for- | |ing the Everett Rotary club, are ar-| mer Broadway high school mertor, | ranging an elaborate program of en-|and claims the championship of tertaimment, incindigg — banquets | Chie. | “GET FIXERS,” | MRS. CHASE . | SAYS PREXY | WANTS DIVORCE NEW YORK, Nov. 23.--“There’s| CINCINNATI, Nov. 23, —Mre lonly one way to clean up baseball—| Anna M. Chase filed «ult for divorce | go after the sure thing gamblers. from Hal Chase, former Cincinnati | “Weak players should be tamed|and New York ballplayer, yesterday City for the fiest after the Chicago exposure; get the! charging extreme cruelty 1 wast | fixers now.” So saya William M. McCarthy | president of the Pacific Coast league who, with Charles H. Strube, pres! jdent of the San Francisco club, is pre on a business trip. jing of money in games of chance | Mrs. Chase has been separated from her husband for nearly a year. It is easy for a man to behave after) he breaks into the hasbeen class, Febeees, former worlt’s heavy ‘Will box an exhibition with Johneon a= part of the festivities at the Leaven local featherweight. is now city under the manage of fam ‘hewn who has lined up | several bouts for Milwaukee mil- the welterweight | first time December MeCormick, the Fnglieh tight You'll Want One of These New Fifty-Cent Pieces The new Fifty-Cent Pieces which commemorate the Landing of the Pilgrims, are coins of rare EB Jack Sharkey and Joe Lamch. beauty and historic interest. is er esta be Pots fw onus “ine 4 ” The obverse side of the coin presents the “May- flower” with the lege ond: “Pilgrim Tercentenary Celebration, 1920.” The reverse side shows a Pilgrim Father and the words: “United States of America—Pilgrim Half Dollar.” These coins will soon become rarities, only a small number have’ been issued. We have a lim- ited quantity of them for circulation, and urge that you call soon, if you wish to possess one of them. meteapes will box 15 is & decision at the Madison ware garden December 2, In Japan the heads of small boys ‘are always kept shaven until they fare 7 years old. This Is supposed to’ & atrengthen the hair. «RUSS TURTURE 4 be eliminated by wearing the 1 pagan ¢ fepecrs We give ‘a803 Third Ave. | ers at the Poot gymnasium | Martin, a pair of bantame | ‘Thursday jeight teams in their THE SEATTLE STAR TURSDAY, NOVEMRPER 22, 1929. Davis to Defend Coast Welter Crown Tonight “CHAMPIONS” SIMONICH TO BOX CHAMP. - AT POOL Travis Davis, Coast welter weight champion, will defend his Ue against Joe Skmonich, the Butte, Mont, battler, at the Crystal Pool, in the headline bout of the American Legion show to- night Davis, who has stecessfully defended bis crown six times since winning it from Johnny MeCarthy, will be a Gevorite to beat the visitor Simonich, however, Ia a rugged miller, and the way he mized thing in his workouts pleased the custom He ix or and is strong. He pretty good infighter Davis is in pretty good condition, | He figures to awkwardly cle and i» boxing well outpoint the Butte battler «| Mike De Pinto, the Tacoma. ban-| tam, won't be able to go on with | Ray Scribner, the Anacortes boy, in the semiwindup, because of @ case of bolls, Matohmaker Mite has sub | ed Billy Ryan, of Portland, for the clever Mike. | A new miller will be Introduced to he fans when Verne Searoy, the ardnocking Wenatchee heavy | Weight, goes on with Grant Randalls, | of Tacoma. Searoy in sald to carry a stiff watlop. Randalls should be 4 good frial for Searoy a 2 and Boy McCassin i for a return go. The laat time they boxed, Boy planted a sleep pon Zuau's handsome Filipino and the boy from Manila went This bout should be filled with plenty of action. Stan Fitseerald and Filipino Kid open o s2u show The first bowt will get under way | at $:36. OREGON | AND U.S.C. | CLASH | PASADENA, Cal, Nov. 23,--all net and rarin’ to go, That desorthes both Oregon and U. & C. gridiron men who are awaiting the whistle that will send them inte the conflict tinary at Te Thankagiving extras here y The battle means much, and then nome, to U. & C. On its sutcome binges the University of Suthern| California's chance at the great New Year's Rant Wert game If Coach Henderson's pierkin pun quers succeed in downing the Ore gonians in decintve fashion, football | critics of the Coast are sure a de mand will be made for a playoff contest between University ef) Southern California and University of California. If Oregon wing, TU. 8. C chances) fo a glimmering. } University of Southern California | will have much to be thankful for) if it can administer « srushing defeat to Oregon, Califor nia, by ber smashing victories over Washington State and Stanford, has & strangle bold on the Western championship. But she cannot en tirety ignore the “University of} Southern California tf the latter team triumphs decisively over Ore ron. Trojan adherents, while not pre dicting their boys will. win by an overwhelming score Thursday, are enthusiastic to the point where they maintain their lads are unbeatable, | TWO CAGE LEAGUES MAY The Star basketball league and the newly organized city league may | merge into one circuit today, There will be a meeting of committees from | both leagues today at Spalding’s| tore at 4 p.m | Both leagues admit that there ts| room for but one city organization, | and one league will absorb the other if satisfactory arrangements can be made. Roth leaguer now have about clreulta. Hut there aren't enough first clasm bas-| ketball players to fill 16 toams in| the city, so an effort will be made} to consolidate the two learues. 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Gad Jones was called tn mid-season last year as the “Moses to lead Yale out of her bog.” Jones didn't do it this year, Yale had « disastrous eca- son and Jones’ status at the head of the department te uncertain Larry Bankbeart, last year's —- Poster Stanford, ball cad. Ces tatoo are teing named as lente tutor at Rut, freahman coac Romer has ft that the #. Loute Carat pale may sigh ep Bill Clymer, former Meattie leader, and pilot of the Colum- bus cleb im the American seseciation last year, to act as & clown on the side linea Dan Griner, veteran hurter, and James Drowns, & youngster, have been fold by the St. Paul American asvociation club to the Memphis club tm the Bouthero league McGraw of the New York fo wintering fo Cake with THANKSGIVING DAY last year, eee 1 ATE my chow, eee ALONE in the big town. eee AND THE TURKEY was all. NEATLY VARNISHED and had see NICE LITTLE paper pants, eee ON BOTH its legs. ee AND TASTED strongly. . ee LIKE NOTHING at all. ee BUT THIS yoar. .* MAN ALIVE, 'm going home, AND THERE will be. A COUNTRY turkey, DONE TO ® turn, BROWN AND savory, CRISP AND fiaky. SENDING up Uttle clouds, OF TANTALIZING steam. MAKING NOSTRILS wrinkle, . CIGARETTES | his successor, Gil Dobie went to Cornel this year! over the and made an carly season sennation out of @ lot of nondescript talent ‘Then the bustup came and the stu denta started yell They could find nothing faulty in his work, but they set upon him for not allowing the team to elect a captain. John Heteman, former coach of Georgia Tech, started out in the same whirlwind fashion at Pennsy} vania. But his machine foundered after the halfway mark and he t# running the gauntlet of eritfetsm. Bob Folwell, new tutor of the Navy two big games, but he seems fortunate in having a con stituency that will bear up under i my Mitedelt, | past few years, to be named as [omer of George Stallings as the chief of the Frnves fer next year, It is enid men & deal with Manager York whereby the etch. Yankees, Deke Mellly, veteran American ssw elation outfielder who was with Ba Lake & few weeks during the openin he past season, will play with the hvitie club in the Southern league tm 1981. Fred Tiratehl, outfielder AND PALATES quiver. OH BOY, real turkey. AND THEN afterwarda, ABLE TO bre rhe. BUT NoT to bend. Vue REACH for a smoke. THAT'S THE Teal turkey, too, . COSTLY AROMATIC Turkish, BLENDED WITH the best. oF MELLOW Domestic leat, AND ONCE again—oh boy. CAN'T YOU just hear me, INFORMING THE world, “THEY SATISFY.” eee Fasick of Vernon has completed | umeins of New! Tigers rescive Frank | & promising outfielder, from the | an eur bal tate, Ru | at CHICAGO, ot GREEN CAPTAIN IS GREAT KICKER right boot of big Jimmy Rob captain and The ertson, Dartmouth’s backfield star, will be a big factor in the Dartmouth-Washington struggle turday, which opens the new sta » built by the Associated stu dents of the University of Washing ton astern critics claim, ts one of the hare to stop that has ever donned a Green uniform, besides being a wonderful punter. Seattle grid fans who witnessed Robertson, Be wt mer the recent . Washington Stanford game, and who saw the wonderfal kicking of “Dink” Templeton, will have a good idea of the type of play- er that Robertson t . punts average 59 ards per game, it Js said, Distance, however, is not such a big factor in Robertson's punts ag the height to which he boots the plawkin, Reports ay that Rober m has the ability of placing punts ne he wants them. tmouth will have the a@vam ver Washington in the kicking rly any place that game. Wilson, the Washington full back, will do the booting for the Westerners, and his kicks average @ little over 40 yards It will be @ matter of captain ve, captain in the drop-kicking stage of the game. Ted Faulk, Washington lea is reputed up and down the Coast because of his drop-kicking ability. Faulk has not fared so well this season, but his right boot may be a factor in the big game Satur- | day. ything if they are given a victory | army. In the West ed to shift about and the foot 1 administrations seem almost rmanent. Jack Wilee at Ohio Bob Zupke at Iilinois, John P. chards at Wisconsin, and Dr. F. Wiliams at Minnesota are kings their own domain. DALY RETAINS CUE LEAD Nov. 223.—John Daly retained his lead in New York the series here for the world’s three cushion billiard championship today \47, T'S real Turkish tobacco oir] goes into Chesterfields — r grown in Turkey and bought ok the ground by our own buyers. To blend {tt with best Domestic, in the exclusive Chesterfield way — leave that to us! “They Satisfy?” We'll leave that to you. ( rier Daly defeated Joe Capron, 50 to last night. they seem lens tn-| BOX FLYNN HERE Willie Meehan, San Francisco heavyweight, and Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, the only heavy- weights im the world who have ever beaten Jack Depoee. will headline the American Legion smoker card | at the Crystal Pool next week. NEW YORK, Nov. 22.— “Strangler” Lewis won his mateh from Wiadek Zbyszko here Inst — | night with « headlock after one hour and 25 minutes of wrestling. In @ semi-windup bout, Joe Stecher, the world’s champion, threw Laon O'Donnell, the Frenchman, in Tf the old time hos- pitality. Famous Rainier Pale—off this market for four and a half years —is again available. Buy it by the case. ORIGI NAL, —=—— a —_